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enIs North Korea the next Vietnam? Don’t count on ithttps://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/07/14/is-north-korea-the-next-vietnam-dont-count-on-it
Wed, 11 Jul 2018 09:00:00 -0400Marcus Nolandhttps://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2018/07/14/is-north-korea-the-next-vietnam-dont-count-on-it Is North Korea no longer a nuclear threat, as Donald Trump said?http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jun/13/donald-trump-north-korea-no-longer-nuclear-threat/
Wed, 13 Jun 2018 09:00:00 -0400Marcus Nolandhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/jun/13/donald-trump-north-korea-no-longer-nuclear-threat/ U.S., North Korea Need to Make 'Concrete' Moves, Peterson's Noland Sayshttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-06-13/u-s-north-korea-need-to-make-concrete-moves-peterson-s-noland-says-video
Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:45:00 -0400Marcus Nolandhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-06-13/u-s-north-korea-need-to-make-concrete-moves-peterson-s-noland-says-video Global Economic Prospects: Spring 2018https://piie.com/events/global-economic-prospects-spring-2018%20
Karen Dynan, nonresident senior fellow and Professor of the Practice in the economics department at Harvard University, led off the Institute's latest semiannual Global Economic Prospects session with a presentation on the US and global economic outlook, including prospects for sustained global...Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:15:00 -0400Karen Dynan, Marcus Noland, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard/events/global-economic-prospects-spring-2018 Mystery train: is North Korea's Kim aboard?https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/03/27/exp-todd-north-korea-kim-jong-un-mystery-train-china.cnn
Tue, 27 Mar 2018 05:00:00 -0400Marcus Nolandhttps://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2018/03/27/exp-todd-north-korea-kim-jong-un-mystery-train-china.cnn Witness to Transformation Takes a Pausehttps://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/witness-transformation-takes-pause%20
This blog was launched prior to publication of our second collaborative effort on North Korea, Witness to Transformation: Refugee Insights into North Korea (2011). It then kept us current during the writing of our third collaborative effort, Hard Target: Sanctions, Inducements and the Case of North...Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:30:00 -0500Marcus Noland, Stephan Haggard/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/witness-transformation-takes-pause Noland on the Trade Talks Podcast: Sanctions on North Koreahttps://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/noland-trade-talks-podcast-sanctions-north-korea%20
This week NK launched an ICBM theoretically capable of hitting Washington. This podcast I recorded with Soumaya Keynes (The Economist) and Chad P. Bown (PIIE) examines the origins of the North Korean economy, and how its characteristics could be amenable (or not) to the use of economic sanctions...Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:30:00 -0500Marcus Noland/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/noland-trade-talks-podcast-sanctions-north-korea North Korea Back on the Terrorism Listhttps://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/north-korea-back-terrorism-list-0%20
Yesterday President Donald Trump put North Korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism. (The country was originally listed in 1987 and removed in 2008.) Relisting will impose additional financial sanctions; remove sovereign immunity from civil lawsuits, making it possible for such suits...Mon, 20 Nov 2017 19:30:00 -0500Marcus Noland/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/north-korea-back-terrorism-list-0 Trump Restrainedhttps://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/trump-restrained%20
Some of the syntax was challenging, and the plug for his golf course in the speech before the National Assembly was tawdry. And we were disappointed to hear the focus on bilateral deficits and the trashing of the KORUS as a “bad deal.” That said, the President was essentially correct in his...Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:30:00 -0500Stephan Haggard, Marcus Noland/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/trump-restrained Self-inflicted KORUS damagehttps://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/self-inflicted-korus-damage%20
Last year, in the context of the political campaign, and Donald Trump's pledge to get tough with our trade partners, Sherman Robinson, Tyler Moran, and I did some modeling of what trade wars with China and Mexico might look like . One of the things we did was look at scenarios, in which rather than...Fri, 03 Nov 2017 07:00:00 -0400Marcus Noland/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/self-inflicted-korus-damage